If the news that the Modbook is shipping fills you with little more than sorrow that your savings don't amount to the $2,290 required to get one into your grubby, artistic hands, then how about DIY surgery on your current MacBook to add in some Wacom-powered touchscreen joy.  Over at Instructables there's a guide for doing just that, with an ... continued »

Somebody tell Steve: the hackers are getting faster.  Less than a day has passed since Apple pushed the 1.1.2 firmware update out the door, and already a hacker by the handle of planetbeing has managed to Jailbreak the iPod Touch.  As this screenshot indicates, the PMP is using the latest version of Apple's software but, since to transfer a screenshot ... continued »

How about an ultraportable notebook with Mac OS X Leopard, great battery life and all for around $299?  Well, not quite, but jkOnTheRun's Kevin Tofel has been experimenting with ways to access his Mac system on the move via his latest toy: ASUS' Eee.  In case you've been out of touch for the past few months (or maybe have your ... continued »

You don’t even need a computer anymore, just an activated iPhone and a WiFi connection. Here is exactly how hard it is, take your freshly activated 1.1.1 iPhone, and connect to a WiFi network. Then direct Safari to jailbreakme.com and click install AppSnapp, that’s it, all, finished finito. Wait a few minutes and you will have a jailbroken iPhone with Installer ... continued »

It's full-on innuendo time around the internet today, as the plucky iPhone Dev Team release their Revirginizer which promises to take your bricked iPhone back to pristine, innocent Apple goodness.  Intended to help out the many people who unlocked their iPhones and then found them to be broken when they attempted to upgrade to firmware version 1.1.1, it should restore handsets unlocked ... continued »

iPhone 1.1.1 catch-up continues, albeit slowly as hackers come to terms with Apple's newly stiffened locking technologies, with mod software iNdependence updated today to bring third-party software and all the glories of Jailbreak to iPhones running the latest firmware version.   continued »

AriX, a gentleman from our sister site, Apple-Touch.com, took the time to automate the jailbreak process for Mac Intel users by making iJailBreak. Sure, judging from the title, you might think it was for the iPhone, but not so much, its for the iPod Touch, the iPhone’s service provider free cousin. Word is, he is working on versions for PPC based ... continued »

There is a site that has an article up claiming that the new anySIM app, the one that works with iPhone firmware 1.1.1, should be out soon. They even have a supposed picture of the software. Apparently the software was even available for download for a while last night, but then got pulled of the shelves, figuratively. The reason is, I ... continued »

So to the simple-minded like myself, what does this mean? It means they are close to an unlock for 1.1.1. They are also working towards some sort of a solution for the numerous bricks out there. We have already reported the fact that iPhoneSIMFree already has a solution, and that it already fixes your bricked products, so if you have the ... continued »

Somehow you are able to use your iPhone’s contact list to access the web. There are 9 steps all of which involve only the iPhone, no computer necessary, and then you are sort of able to surf the web with Safari and your selected WiFi network. It involves a lot of iPhone freezes, so if your preciously pricey device freezing up ... continued »

Yesterday we got the preliminary Jailbreak, today we have 3rd party native apps running smoothly. So far the Colloquy IRC client and the NES emulator work. They also got access to the Sprinboar, which means you don’t have to use the command line to launch apps. You can apparently add up to 15 apps to the Springboard. continued »

There is an article over at Macnn that gives a few good reasons why the bricking may not have been intentional. First they start with a pretty good previous example of Apple’s possible intentions with the iPhone from Apple’s original Mac that had no expansion slots because they wanted to avoid the lockups caused by adding random expansion hardware. They even ... continued »